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Classensgade
Classensgade is a street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Østerbrogade in the southwest to Østbanegade in the northeast. History The street is named after major-general and industrialist Johan Frederik Classen. whose summer retreat, Classens Have ("Classen's Garden") was located in the area. It had a vast garden as indicated by the name. Having no children, Classen endowed his estate to a foundation, Det Classenske Fideicommis. Classensgade originates in the access road to a property, Justineborg, which was named after Classen's sister-in_law. The street was officially named Classensvej ("Classen's Road#) in 1860. The short section from Lille Triangle to Kastelsvej was then part of Kastelsvej. In 1889, Classensvej and the first short section of Kastelsvej were renamed Classensgade. Notable buildings One of the only surviving country houses in Østerbro, Øbrogård or Vennero, is located in the courtyard of No. 11. It dates from the 19th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Classensgade is a street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Østerbrogade in the southwest to Østbanegade in the northeast. History The street is named after major-general and industrialist Johan Frederik Classen. whose summer retreat, Classens Have ("Classen's Garden") was located in the area. It had a vast garden as indicated by the name. Having no children, Classen endowed his estate to a foundation, Det Classenske Fideicommis. Classensgade originates in the access road to a property, Justineborg, which was named after Classen's sister-in_law. The street was officially named Classensvej ("Classen's Road#) in 1860. The short section from Lille Triangle to Kastelsvej was then part of Kastelsvej. In 1889, Classensvej and the first short section of Kastelsvej were renamed Classensgade. Notable buildings One of the only surviving country houses in Østerbro, Øbrogård or Vennero, is located in the courtyard of No. 11. It dates from the 19th century. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aggersborggade
Aggersborggade is a street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Classensgade in the south to Holsteinsgade in the north and is intersected by Willemosegade. History The street takes its name after broker Hans Christian Aggersborg (1812-1895), a founding partner of Bechgaard & Aggersborg, who purchased a piece of land at the site when Classensgade#History, Classen's Garden was sold off in lots in 1846. A number of former fishing ponds connected by canals were located on the land. He constructed a country house on a small isle in one of the lakes, naming it Aggersborg. He lived in an apartment at Holmens Kanal 4 but spent the summers in Østerbro. Aggersborg was the maternal uncle of the painter P. C. Skovgaard. Skovgaard, who was from North Zealand, had lived with Aggersborg when he just 14 years old moved to Copenhagen to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Royal Danish Art Academy. Skovgaard's children—Joakim Skovgaard, Joakim, Niels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kastelsvej
Kastelsvej is a street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Classensgade to Strandboulevarden. History Kastelsvej was originally called Citadelsvej. It continued to the northern entrance gate to Citadellet Frederikshavn (now Kastellet). A boom house was located approximately where Livjægergade. A fee for using was charged and the provenue went partly to maintenance of the road and partly to the poorly paid servants at Kastellet. The Institute for the Deaf was built on the glacis in front of Kastellet in 1838. The Institute for the Deaf had been built as an arrowhead-shaped revelin which could easily be converted into a defensive structure in the event of a hostile attack. After Copenhagen's fortifications were decommissioned in the 1850s, it was joined by the Royal Institute for the Blind. A number of large villas were built on the street in the after 1900. They were originally meant to line the fashionable new street Bergensgade but it was never con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Povl Baumann
Povl Erik Raimund Baumann (9 November 1878 – 3 July 1963) was a Danish architect who was a central figure during the transition from Neoclassicism to Functionalism in Danish residential architecture. In 1910, he was one of the founders of ''Den frie Architektforening'', an alternative architects' association, and headed it for the nine years it existed. Early life and education Baumann was born on 9 November 1878 in Copenhagen, the son of translator Heinrich Johann Raimund Baumann and Julie Augusta née Riise. He first enrolled at the College of Advanced Technology to become a building engineer but in 1888 discontinued his studies after just three semesters. Instead he took classes at a technical school from 1899 to 1901 while at the same time apprenticing as a mason. He was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1900 but dissatisfied with the teachings, left just two years later and was instead articled to Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint. He participated in an archae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strandboulevarden
Strandboulevarden (literally "Beach Boulevard") is a major street in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Fridtjof Nansens Plads as in the south to Østerbrogade in the north, linking Kristianiagade with Jagtvej. History Decided by the City Council in 1894 and opened in 1897, Strandboulevarden was founded in connection with the establishment of the Freeport of Copenhagen in the mid-1890s and the opening of the railway between Hellerup and Østerport station, Østerport which moved the coastline north of Copenhagen several hundred eastwards in the mid-1890s. The first section of the street, south of Nordre Frihavnegade, incorporated an existing street, Gefionsgade, slightly more narrow than the rest of the boulevard, which had been founded a few years earlier. The initial plan was to build a bridge across the railway tracks, which would have allowed the boulevard to continue north along presentday Strandpromenaden, but that part of the project was never carried ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
